Thursday, June 18, 2009
A question for Bill Clinton
Four years ago, Bill Clinton roiled the righty blogosphere by offering a, er, generous view of Iranian democracy:
Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997). (It is) the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: Two for president; two for the Parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralties. In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.
Somebody needs to ask Bill Clinton whether he now thinks he was wrong about Iran back then.
2 Comments:
By 
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Thu Jun 18, 08:29:00 AM:
Unfortunately for us all, the list of Great Satanists Fooled by the Mullahs did not begin with President Clinton . It started with the Carter Administration.
Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter’s ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said “Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint.” Carter’s Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, “Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure.” Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty.”….
Gen. Robert Huyser, Carter’s military liaison to Iran, once told me in tears: “The president could have publicly condemned Khomeini and even kidnapped him and then bartered for an exchange with the [American Embassy] hostages, but the president was indignant. ‘One cannot do that to a holy man,’ he said.”
Making nice to the mullahs does not appear to be productive policy.When will they ever learn? Apparently not until more poppies grow In Flanders Fields.
By , at
Thu Jun 18, 12:25:00 PM:
You Clinton haters are still at it! Of course, Bill no longer believes the Persians are good guys, he (and his close friends) are no longer making lots of Iraqi oil voucher money and, therefore, no longer need the mullahs' good will.
